The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1902 |
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... feet per minute , but the canal is designed to have a maximum capacity of 600,000 cubic feet per minute . The entire cost ( 1st January 1900 ) was $ 34,000,000 . The cost is defrayed from taxes paid by the owners of property in the ...
... feet per minute , but the canal is designed to have a maximum capacity of 600,000 cubic feet per minute . The entire cost ( 1st January 1900 ) was $ 34,000,000 . The cost is defrayed from taxes paid by the owners of property in the ...
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... feet above sea - level , and surrounded by densely forested hill ranges . The population of the town consists chiefly of Lao , with a number of Chinese , Siamese , Shâns , and Ka hillmen , and about fifty Europeans , and numbers from ...
... feet above sea - level , and surrounded by densely forested hill ranges . The population of the town consists chiefly of Lao , with a number of Chinese , Siamese , Shâns , and Ka hillmen , and about fifty Europeans , and numbers from ...
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... feet . It has three railways , the Chicago , Burlington , and Quincy , the Chicago , Milwaukee , and St Paul , and the Wabash . Population ( 1880 ) , 4078 ; ( 1890 ) , 5717 ; ( 1900 ) , 6905 , of whom 255 were foreign - born and 538 ...
... feet . It has three railways , the Chicago , Burlington , and Quincy , the Chicago , Milwaukee , and St Paul , and the Wabash . Population ( 1880 ) , 4078 ; ( 1890 ) , 5717 ; ( 1900 ) , 6905 , of whom 255 were foreign - born and 538 ...
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... feet in some parts . Extending , as the formations do , over nearly the whole of China , they vary indefinitely in their relations to one another , but the whole points to a long period of quiescence when the central and northern parts ...
... feet in some parts . Extending , as the formations do , over nearly the whole of China , they vary indefinitely in their relations to one another , but the whole points to a long period of quiescence when the central and northern parts ...
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... feet in depth - points to immense antiquity , and probably was preceded by a series of inland lakes . The extensive areas now filled with red sandstone such as exist in Hunan and Szechuen were doubtless the beds of such lakes . A ...
... feet in depth - points to immense antiquity , and probably was preceded by a series of inland lakes . The extensive areas now filled with red sandstone such as exist in Hunan and Szechuen were doubtless the beds of such lakes . A ...
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